Moving on to more exciting news… SEGOVIA. Early, early this morning (9 am, I know that’s not early, but, hey, it was our day off!), our group packed up our bocadillos (you read more about these and their enormity a few posts ago), our coats (everyone assured us it would be freezing there!) and headed to Segovia for the day!
It’s much different travelling with the program, because everything is structured for you, and Javier comes as a tour guide (he knows so much about Spain, but sometimes we don’t want to hear EVERYTHING about a particular topic :). First we got to see Los Jardínes de la Granja de San Ildefonso, which were pretty amazing, even in the winter! (yes, in my pictures there is snow! But in the sun felt so warm to the Ohioans!)
(La Granja de San Ildefonso)Then we actually rode into the city of Segovia, where the Roman aqueduct is—it’s so incredible! It was constructed with no cement whatsoever, just rocks that fit together perfectly. My pictures, like so many things, really can’t even do it justice! It was built at the end of the 1st century and beginning of the 2nd century, that’s muy antiguo!
We trotted around through the city to the Castle de Alcázar, which is supposedly what Cinderella’s castle is based on. It was built about 9 centuries ago, I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves…
Finally, after enjoying our lunch in the sun, a few of us went to a few shops. There was a little hippie store, one of the ones that smell like incense and are full of scarves, handmade jewelry, and all other good things, and it was so fun to just look around awhile! At the end of the day we ended up at the Catedral de Segovia. Unfortunately I couldn’t take pictures inside, but I took tons of the outside! Since it was my first European cathedral, I was amazed! The students from last semester said they’d seen so many, but I thought it was so amazing! :)
Sorry this post is kind of “business-y” and not very interesting! The girls and I are going out on the town of Alcalá tonight, so maybe I’ll have some adventures that lead to funny blog posts!
Hasta luego (or “staluego” if you’re going say it like a native! :)
Abrazos y Besitos, (hugs and kisses)
Ana
We trotted around through the city to the Castle de Alcázar, which is supposedly what Cinderella’s castle is based on. It was built about 9 centuries ago, I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves…
Finally, after enjoying our lunch in the sun, a few of us went to a few shops. There was a little hippie store, one of the ones that smell like incense and are full of scarves, handmade jewelry, and all other good things, and it was so fun to just look around awhile! At the end of the day we ended up at the Catedral de Segovia. Unfortunately I couldn’t take pictures inside, but I took tons of the outside! Since it was my first European cathedral, I was amazed! The students from last semester said they’d seen so many, but I thought it was so amazing! :)
Sorry this post is kind of “business-y” and not very interesting! The girls and I are going out on the town of Alcalá tonight, so maybe I’ll have some adventures that lead to funny blog posts!
Hasta luego (or “staluego” if you’re going say it like a native! :)
Abrazos y Besitos, (hugs and kisses)
Ana
Cinderella!!! lol
ReplyDeleteIt's true!! don't laugh at me!
ReplyDeleteIt's all so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteUm, I don't know how I missed this, but I love that you went to a hippie store in Spain! Have you seen any gypsies?
ReplyDeleteLin-z we went to a legit gypsy cave and saw them do Flamenco in Granada! it was sooo sweet!
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